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Bakersfield, California · Recruiting for contractors and utilities across California, and nationwide for select engagements

PAST PERFORMANCE

A track record you can count on.

Innovation Consulting LLC was founded in December 2023. The engagements below were held by IC directly. Our leaders’ career work outside the company is also included.

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IC engagements

Kept separate from career history

IC PAST PERFORMANCE

Engagements held by Innovation Consulting

Each engagement below is an Innovation Consulting LLC contract. Client names are withheld here and shared on request, with references.

Commercial and industrial electrical contractor

2026 – ongoing

Recruitment

Electrical foreman, lead journeyman, journeyman, project manager, senior project manager, and safety manager recruitment

Electrical contractor: healthcare, commercial, industrial, and utility work

Project manager and procurement agent recruitment, multiple offices

2026 – ongoing

Recruitment

California water utility

Capital program leadership staffing

2024 – ongoing

Staffing

Multi-state regulated gas utility

Enterprise transformation and change management consulting for the HR organization

2024 – ongoing

Change management

PRINCIPAL EXPERIENCE

What our leaders bring from their careers

Individual career experience of our leaders, outside Innovation Consulting LLC contracts. This is not IC contract history.

Portrait of Russell Beck, President

Russell Beck

PRESIDENT

  • SoCalGas transmission and distribution engineering programs (2022–2024)

  • SCE Big Creek Hydroelectric upgrades (2021–2022)

  • PG&E Central Valley substations, 12kV to 500kV (2009–2020)

  • CRC Elk Hills oilfield electrical program, 7 years, 120-person team

  • Verizon Mobile Switching Center critical power

  • $120M enterprise program-controls system build

Portrait of Pamela Arban, VP Operations

Pamela Arban

VP OPERATIONS

  • Meta Reality Labs change-management and process improvement (2022–2024)

  • GDC Technics enterprise PMO stand-up (2015–2017)

  • Quality and compliance leadership: ISO 17025, AS9100/9110, Nadcap

  • Lean Six Sigma Green Belt

Certified diverse supplier

LGBTBE · NGLCC

LGBTBE · CPUC Supplier Clearinghouse

SBE / Micro · CA DGS

EBE, SBE & LGBTE · RAMP LA

SBE · Port of Long Beach

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Innovation Consulting LLC

Recruitment, staffing, and consulting for construction and utilities.

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8200 Stockdale Hwy., Suite M10-256
Bakersfield, CA 93311

© 2026 Innovation Consulting LLC

LGBTBE · SBE/Micro · EBE · CPUC Supplier Clearinghouse registered

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